The Liberal Party of Canada, hopeful that it can parlay dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to prorogue Parliament last month into weakened voter support for the Conservatives, released a series of new radio and print ads this morning.
The print ad is to the left.
You can check them out at the Liberal Web site. They're pretty simple. One says proroguing was Harper's Christmas gift to himself to avoid having to answer questions about allegations of Afghan detainee torture, climate change and job loss. No politicians, Liberal or otherwise, are featured in the ads.
Meanwhile, a new poll is out this morning that, despite the prorogation issue, voter support does not appear to be shifting a great deal (except, perhaps in Quebec). Angus Reid, in a poll done for La Presse, finds that 36 per cent of committed voters would cast a ballot for the Conservatives, compared to 29 per cent for the Liberals and 17 per cent for the NDP. In Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois has the support of 36 per cent, the Liberals have 26 per cent, the Conservatives have 19 per cent and the NDP has 11 per cent. La Presse does not provide information about the poll's methodology or its accuracy and the poll does not yet seem to be posted at Angus Reid's site.
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Angus Reid polls online. The sample is self-selected, most likely from bank clients and other relatively high net-worth individuals. While they're the cohort most likely to vote, it's most likely the same people every week, which means it's not exactly random sampling.